I think I ruined my Daughters Curly Hair..Can I bring her Curls Back?

I am hoping to find some helpful tips here. I do not have curly hair. My husbands family does though. So I had no idea how to handle my daughters curls. Well I *thought* I knew how to handle them...but I think I have destroyed my Daughters once Gorgeous curls.

My Daughter is 6. She started to get curly hair at about 1 when her hair started to grow in. I was So Unsure what to do. So I started to wet her hair down every day. That was working! We had Gorgeous 3A curls for years. Then as preschool and kdg started I would wake her up every single morning to look put together for school and with a Spray Bottle and a Comb (Bad I now know ) I would comb out her hair and spray at the same time to get it soaked and then I would put creme gel in. This worked for a few years and we still had curly hair. But now she is wavy in most parts...2A-2B. Curls still frame around her face. Just all of the other once gorgeous spirals are gone! I cant help but think I have combed them away each and every day combing and wetting her hair which I thought was helpful to then scrunch and put product in. I now feel like I have combed them away.

I just bought the Curly Girl book and I am about to start! Daughter just got a trim.

Any chance I can bring those curlies back that I combed through for years?

The curlygirl method will help any curl she has. But hair changes as well could be the cause, I had blonde ringlets up until I was 5, and then cut my hair really short and it grew in straight and brown/blond until I turned 11 it got curly again. So you never know. But I wish my parents would have known about the curlygirl method when I was younger. Im sure that it will help your daughter

From my experience with kids, they like stuff in spray bottles. Any real creams/gels feel slimy and gross to them :P BUT, some kids may be the opposite! I've just generally found sprays to be easier; they're less fussy and much easier to distribute, and kids tend to be more inclined to use them

My 5 yr old was born with straight hair, that turned into adorable 3b curls, which had now gone back to straight. I've been on the curly girl routine with her since birth and my favorite products for her were kinky curly knot today and curling custard. Now I'm using deva curl products on her and her little sister. It doesn't bring her texture back but it does mean great hair days for little sis.

Her hair might just be changing as she grows up. For example, I had super curly 3c hair up until I was about 4 or 5. It slowly turned into loose, big waves before going dead straight for years. My curls came back in middle school and as an adult, I now have 3a/3b curls. All of this to say that you didn't ruin her hair by combing it, it might just be a product of getting older.

(Also is her hair longer now? If her hair is super long, it might be weighing the curls down).

Hi everyone! Mi daughter had beautiful natural curls, long hair, easy to maintain. Then she decides she wanted to donate her locks to cancer wigs, so we took her to the salon and she did it, she was only 5. Since then her hair is wavy but not curly, any chance we could get the curls back? I love what she did but I miss her beautiful curls too. Any help is greatly appreciated

Hmm, my experience is that by shoulder length, the curls/waves are pretty well able to form. It may be that her hair is just becoming less curly as she gets older, which is not unusual.

Did the stylist also wash her hair and put styling products in it? If so, maybe your daughter has build-up from the stylers. You could try washing your daughter's hair with a sulfate shampoo that is silicone free to see if the curls return. If not, I'm guessing that it's just that her hair is changing as she is getting older.